Went out yesterday using my fall tactics for spring Striper. Trolled the CBBT from the small boat channel to the 4th island. Nothing. Anyone have any tips?

On the positive side - it was a beautiful day to be on the water and the boat got a good run.

Today I waxed the old girl - top to bottom.

Charlie are you talking about your Boat or something else? ?LOL

Well...

My boat. The other "old girl" waxes me once in a while - usually over spending too much time and money on fishing..

I hear that. The Spring Striper are pretty much the same but they are boat shy sometimes.This is a good time to Chunk for them useing live Spot or Croaker for Bait.I would try the Tube you might even get a large Grey while your out there.

Charlie,

I've never really hit the spring season that hard, but I would think using close to the same stuff would work. As the water warms I'd try casting storm lures or live baits into the rocks around the islands or dropping them around the pilings...eels, too.

Good Luck!

Get yourself a couple colors of Windcheater lures and have a real ball casting to and around the islands and various pilings.

i went out also on saturday and found the schoolies in the pilings of the third caught some nice ones (19-34 inches) and a mackerel by just casting into the pilings, you could see them busting the surface and hitting the bait(i was using a 3 oz bucktail with white grubtail). But in the spring season i usually just drop some croakers, spot, or bunker over the tube and i also just cast with bucktails in the pilings. finding the birds is another fun thing i do, hope you get out there and catch some nice ones



Nick

Try positioning up current of the tubes and letting live bait drift back over them on the bottom. Nice fish caught like that last year. Be careful though because especially on weekends it gets pretty thick out there and the current can be tricky.

Went out friday night and sunday night and caught plenty of 26-30 inchers at the first island throwing white storms up next to the pilings. None big enough to make 32" but stil a lot of fun on light tackle.

Charlie,

I had some luck with Storms and bucktails the other night. No size to them, but fun anyway. Going to try the live bait thing with croaker here pretty soon. Caught a couple of eels in my minnow pot, so might soak them too.

I'm going to try the live bait thing too - that seems to be the way to go for the big ones.

EELS & SPOT on a (whatsmyname) down deep on the bottom, real real slow !

Definitely live bait on the bottom over the tube or around the tube. Eels, croakers, trout, etc.